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Development of a Correction for Defensiveness in the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Second Edition-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) Profiles of Adult Male Sex Offenders
(2021-10)Clinical and forensic psychologists often evaluate sex offenders to determine the level of risk they pose to the community and identify their treatment needs to reduce the risk of future recidivism. Personality assessments ... -
Development and Evaluation of an Object Relations Measure for the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank
(2021-10)Personality assessment measures provide useful insight into the characteristic dispositions and psychological makeup of clinical populations and are routinely utilized by mental health professionals to guide treatment ... -
Shared Leadership Emergence: The Role of Leader Identity and Leadership Structure Schema
(2021-12)The increasing popularity of self-managing teams has sparked interest in the impact of shared leadership structures on team outcomes. Yet, it is unclear how shared leadership structures form or why they vary across teams. ... -
Medication Assisted Treatment: Examining Enrollment and Demographic Factors of Treatment
(2021-09)Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) has been a long-standing epidemic concern related to the continuous growth of variations of the substance and its’ potency. Due to the versatility of the substance to be both an illicit drug and ... -
Adaptability as a Moderator on the Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse and the Development of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms
(2021-09)Globally, it is estimated that 11.8% children experience Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) prior to the age of 18 (Stoltenborgh et al., 2011). However, the current prevalence rate of CSA is far underestimated due to the fear, ... -
A Joint Soft Warping and Clustering Approach to Detecting Time Series Anomalies
(2021-12)Unsupervised anomalous time series detection methods focus on identifying outliers without prior knowledge of the dataset. However, these methods often require multiple parameters to be optimized, with adequate performance ... -
An Evolutionary Inspired Framework for Grasp Planning Automation on Sheet-Metal Parts with Multi-type Grippers
(2021-12)Industrial robot-mounted grippers are commonly used in the automotive industry to position, manipulate, and immobilize sheet-metal parts during several manufacturing and assembly operations. Nowadays, the use of grippers ... -
Factors that Influence the Extent to which Cities on Florida’s Atlantic Coast are Preparing for Climate Change: A multiple regression analysis and learning opportunities for policymakers
(2021-12)This study involved a survey (Appendix A) to leaders of 158 cities inside the counties that border the Atlantic coast of Florida. The impetus behind this study was to identify how policymakers were obtaining, understanding, ... -
Measuring the Relationship of Gender Misclassification and Automated Face Recognition Match Accuracy Relative to Skin Tone
(2021-07)The gap of accuracy observed in some commercial face analytic systems based on race and gender raised questions about the equity and fairness of those systems. Since these systems are part of several applications today, ... -
The Effects of Reinforcer Absence and Availability of Alternative Activity on Delay of Gratification in Children with Autism
(2021-07)An increase in delay tolerance can help individuals obtain more preferred items, activities, and interactions. There are also many situations in a young child's daily life in which they cannot have immediate access to ... -
Evaluating Matrix Training to Teach Children With Autism to Tact Private Events
(2021-07)The research on teaching tacts has primarily focus on visual stimuli, with relatively little attention to teaching tacts of nonvisual stimuli. The present study extended the literature to different types of tactile stimulation ... -
Implementation of Behavior Skills Training via Telehealth to Teach Pre-Session Pairing to Caregivers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2021-07)This study aimed to extend the literature on training procedures used in telehealth and extend the literature on caregiver training. This study utilized a multiple-baseline design to implement behavior skills training to ... -
Beyond Resource Depletion: An Examination of Sleepiness, Self-Regulation, and Goal Progress
(2021-12)Research on employee sleepiness and self-regulation has primarily adopted a resource depletion perspective. However, other theoretical frameworks suggest additional processes may be involved. The current study explored ... -
Studies on How Grooming Can Improve the Performance of Fouling Control Coatings
(2021-07)Biofouling is the accumulation of unwanted organisms on a submerged surface. This can be a major issue to most marine activities. The most common approach to biofouling prevention on ship hulls is the application of fouling ... -
Effects of Instructive Feedback on Gustatory Relations
(2021-07)Differentiating tastes is important for safety reasons; being able to discriminate flavors could prevent an individual from eating unsafe items. The association of taste, color, and texture of different foods is important ... -
Characterization and Modeling of Upward Lightning at the Gaisberg Tower
(2021-07)The majority of cloud-to-ground lightning is downward. Upward lightning rarely occurs; less than 1% of cloud-to-ground lightning is upward. Upward lightning differs from its downward counterpart in how it is initiated. ... -
Stress Analysis Based on ECG and EEG
(2021-07)Stress is a significant risk factor for various diseases such as hypertension, heart attack, stroke, and even sudden death. In many studies, stress is linked to decision making, performance, and learning. The heart rate ... -
Divergent Regulatory Roles of NuRD Chromatin Remodeling Complex Subunits GATAD2 and CHD4 in Caenorhabditis elegans
(2021-07)During stress, a protective cellular network known as the heat shock response (HSR) is induced to maintain protein-folding homeostasis, or proteostasis. While the HSR is essential for stress resistance, its misregulation ... -
Unveiling Migration Patterns Using Data and Network Science
(2021-12)Many real-world phenomena have recently been witnessed, motivating scientists to provide a comprehensive understanding of worldwide networks, such as the human migration phenomenon. Human migration research is multidisciplinary ... -
ARION 33: A Prospective Mission to Near-Earth Asteroids
(2021-12)Near-Earth asteroids will become primary targets for space industrialization in the future as humanity becomes a multi-planetary species. But before such missions, it is necessary to survey these asteroids for their intrinsic ...